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Died 13 December 2013, Cambridge, United Kingdom Education Harvard University (1950), Reed College Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada Books Elizabeth I: War and Politics - 1, The shaping of the Elizab, Queen Elizabeth and the m, Exeter - 1540‑1640 | ||
Wallace T. MacCaffrey (1920-2013) was Professor Emeritus of History at Harvard University. He was a graduate of Reed College and Harvard University. He also taught at the University of California, Los Angeles and Haverford College. Among his awards is a Guggenheim fellowship. He was a leading scholar of Elizabethan England.
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He died, aged 93, on 13 December 2013 at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, following a short illness and is buried at St Andrew's church, Girton.
Chairmanships at Harvard
MacCaffrey served as the Harvard History chair twice, and presided over a period of turmoil in the department.
Reed donation
He gave Reed College a $1 million donation in 2006.
Personal life
He was married to Isable Gamble and spent his retirement living in Girton near Cambridge, England.
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